I smell some hidden progresism here, leveling all races as if they were equal. Ruining the palette and pushing the narrative towards a greyish narrow variety. Like in the real world, different races have different traits, a fantasy world allows you to make the real, perceivable and measurable difference between races, yet sublte but notizable enough to make a difference statistically, into a more pronounced differentiated races, more creative with struggles that add color to the role play. 

Do dwarves have a burrowing speed?

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Do dwarves have a burrowing speed?

They do not. That kind of thing would be listed in the species traits.

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Nope!

I completely disagree, medium armor prof, vs more hp, vs some innate spells was just as distinctive as 1 cantrip, vs, 5 ft of movement, vs some innate spells is.

Not all dwarves have huge muscles.

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Boring, dumbed down garbage, as seems to be the trade mark of the new edition.

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Hm…

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Why are there no Dwarven Lineages?

 
There have been so many answers to this question and none of them really hit the mark. It's less that "oh the subraces were just not that distinct before" and more that the design space that races are allowed to occupy has shifted to the point that everything mountain dwarves used to do is now gone

There used to be two mechanical benefits to playing a mountain dwarf: Mountain dwarves got a better ability score improvement (+2 to two different stats instead of +2 to one stat and +1 to another) and mountain dwarves got light & medium armor proficiency.

Ability score improvements are no longer tied to race, they are instead tied to background.

Additionally, modern dnd race / species design paradigms wants to avoid giving species weapon proficiencies, tool proficiencies, and armor training, and will only give out skill proficiencies as part of a race if there is some sort of justification for why it is an biologically innate trait and not a cultural thing. In general, your species should give you things that are biologically innate to that species (typically spells, unarmed strikes, movement speed). See also how rock gnomes went from getting tinker's tools proficiency to instead getting a pair of innate cantrips.

Dwarven culture is one way in one setting, but it may be completely different in another, it's not like they pop out the womb knowing how to brew ale or swing a battleaxe. You could let the player choose what proficiencies you get from the race to reflect how dwarven culture looks in this particular setting, but at that point we imply that dwarves are innately more flexible learners or something and that's meant to be humanity's thing.

So, in order to keep mountain dwarf around as a separate option without making your "dwarf raised by elves" character weird, you'd need to invent a new set of racial traits to give mountain dwarves. But the flat hp bonus per level works arguably better for mountain dwarves than it does for hill dwarves.



Also medium armor was just a terrible thing to give mountain dwarves to begin with. They are supposed to be the warrior subrace, as opposed to the hill dwarf who are supposed to be the dwarven cleric spec. But every single martial class already gives you proficiency in medium armor, so armor training only benefits you if you are playing like a wizard, sorcerer, bard, warlock, rogue or another class equally unsuited for the ability scores it gives you. Only time i ever played a mountain dwarf fighter was when TCoE released and i made a rune knight fighter who was doing the Ron Swanson bit of just happening to be an expert blacksmith, carpenter, chef, and a dozen other "dad skills" becuase i traded in the weapon and armor profs for more tools.

What about mountain dwarfs? I'm trying to be a Mount dwarf sorcerer 

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What about mountain dwarfs? I'm trying to be a Mount dwarf sorcerer 

Mountain Dwarves were a "subrace" in the 5e rules. Subraces aren't really a thing anymore in 5.5e.

If you're looking for the 5e Dwarf species, which had subraces like Mountain Dwarf, you can find it here.

If you're playing under the 5.5e rules, then the idea of a "Mountain Dwarf" is setting-specific flavor with no mechanical impact, so you don't really need to worry about it when using D&D Beyond's character builder.